[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MORE)
- From: knura@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Tue Jun 3 17:24:21 2008
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2008, Balu manyam wrote:
the v puts the "less" buffer into the editor of your choice
vi/emacs/pico etc. (EDITOR variable). Editing capability
referenced above is within the "less" tool itself.
wow - i did not know this
Two other useful variables that you can set are:
LESS=-Misc
PAGER=less
"less" will use the options (in my case -M -i -s -c) as set in the LESS
variable.
Many apps use whatever the PAGER variable is set to, for paginating
their output.
--
Arun Khan
Other related posts:
